High School Bans Cheerleaders From Wearing Uniforms To School
LatestAdministrators at San Jose’s Piedmont Hills High school want girls to stop wearing super-short skirts to class — even though the school bought them. School officials have started cracking down on students who violate the dress code, but it seems no one bothered to read the policy before ordering the cheerleaders custom-made $300 uniforms. Many schools across the country require skirts to be lower than mid-thigh, but is the dress code going to far when it threatens the fine American tradition of putting teen cheerleaders in super-skimpy uniforms?
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Principal Traci Williams has issued a decree that cheerleaders must wear sweatpants under their skirts during school. Yet during games, it’s fine to expose the student body to legs and lollies (or whatever you call those little briefs). This year the school has started doing “dress-code sweeps” and pulling violators out of class until their parents come with a change of clothes. Cheerleader Antonia Bavilacqua says the squad should be exempt: